'Fjord' by Cristian Mungiu, Palme d'Or Winner at the Cannes Film Festival: a Clash of Opposing Worlds
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From the media case of a placement of children in Norway, "Fjord" of the Romanian Cristian Mungiu, Palme d'or 2026, wants to provoke a debate on the dead spots of the most progressive democracies. Under the guise of complex thought, the film struggles to accurately describe the workings of a very delicate system.
The film, which opens in France on Wednesday, is based on a true story and recounts the fate of a devout family who left Romania to settle in Norway with their five children. Their daily life is turned upside down when suspicions of educational abuse arise, stemming from their strict approach to parenting. Identity tensions – In "Fjord," the Romanian father (Sebastian Stan) and the Norwegian mother (Renate Reinsve) forbid their children from us…
"Fjord" by Cristian Mungiu is released this Wednesday on the screens. A drama that opposes a traditionalist family from Romania to the Scandinavian progressive social system. Ambiguous to wish, it bears the mark of a filmmaker who is not afraid to push the ideas received. - "Fjord" in theatres on Wednesday: between clash of cultures and social fractures, a Palme d'or on "the need to doubt" (Culture, media and entertainment).
The 58-year-old Romanian director won last May for the second time the Cannoese supreme award for his seventh film in almost twenty-five years of career.
'Fjord' by Cristian Mungiu, Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival: a clash of opposing worlds
A deeply religious Romanian evangelical family, newly settled in a small Norwegian town, comes up against the country's liberal principles and ultimately the justice system when the couple is suspected, without evidence, of child abuse.
Last May, the director decimated his second Golden Palme by pointing to the debunks of a Romanian evangelist family in Norway. Unclassifiable, his film questions our vision of secularism.
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